As we go into another season, these talented ladies welcomed Spring in the best way possible. Written by Maria Colina Saab.

As the PLL panel took place this Saturday in Hollywood, Shay Mitchell couldn't help but bring all eyes to her. The brunette bombshell did her hair into soft waves to match her classy outfit. The makeup was even more impressive, with heavy highlighting and contouring, while the eyes were a shimmery smokey mauve degrade complemented by fluffy lashes. Strong eyebrows and lipgloss were the final touch to bring together this ultra feminine look.

As the face for Wonderland magazine’s Spring issue, Hannah Ferguson got to rock some reallycool makeup. The smokey eye was brought to another level with the blackest shade in a cat like shape, and a very heavy under eye blended with the a perfect silver inner corner. Coming to the hair they definitely didn't tone it down, with big golden curls. A matte earthy tone was put in the lips and pointy nails completed this amazing, sensuality charged look.

As she partied in London earlier this week, Rita Ora didn’t miss the chance to, once again, experiment with beauty. The singer went easy on the hair styling as she just kept her blonde locks straight and casual. However, with the makeup it wasn't the same case as the coolest stripe of silver glitter was drawn in the middle of the lid, which she then exaggerated with Twiggy like lower lashes. The rest was very natural, as there was no need of anything else for this super cute and fun look.

“Progress is baby steps, small victories and a little bit of momentum…” Written by Rachel Douglass.

It is fascinating to follow a brand that started a hype of philosophical thinking in beauty products, with words of encouragement displayed on their minimalistic packaging. Philosophy is the brand that got our hearts racing with the infamous product, Hope in a Jar, offering renewed skin throughout the day, soon becoming everyone’s usual carry-round purse product. It seems they have done it again, this time mixing up the night time routine with a daily exfoliator providing a 30 second mini peel to rejuvenate tired looking skin.

With just a small amount needed, I applied the product straight onto damp skin, in circular motions to build up a sweet smelling soapy formula. The micro-exfoliating beads are subtle enough to not feel uncomfortable, yet I could still already feel the difference they were making. Over time I noticed a real change in my skin, with a brighter complexion and the products ability to stop break outs in their track. The daily use even managed to buff away scarring and, as my skin took it in overnight, I could see the change in quality of my face. There are times where I skip a day as I feel my skin is too sensitive to handle an every-night scrubbing, however by using a good moisturiser afterwards you can avoid any dry patches that you fear.

SA.AL&Co is the newly introduced organic and sustainable skincare for men who have been around the world and know what good skincare entails. Written by Wes Viana Ferreiro

According to founder Istvan Laszloffy the main idea behind SA.AL&Co is to marry the idea of premium natural skincare and a masculine design to create a line of essential products for men. Laszloffy from Hungarian-Armenian descent, formerly an investment banker, decided to focus his creative energy into creating a new skincare brand that is sustainable, has clear purpose and fulfils his aesthetic beliefs. Coming from a family of artisan shoe- and glove makers Laszloffy left the financial sector to create a product from a scratch - just like his ancestors did.

The collection includes a hair & body wash, shaving creme, light moisturiser & after shave, intense moisturiser and deodorant. The products have a fresh, subtle fragrance that reminisces of old-fashioned apothecaries created by ingredients such as macadamia oil, shea butter, green tea extract and herbs that can be found in the Alps. The collection is made in small batches to guarantee span-new formulas of the best quality.

As we step into March, Paris Fashion Week takes over and it definitely didn’t disappoint. Written by Maria Colina Saab.

Leaving the Vogue Fashion Fund Cocktail Party this past Friday, Emily Ratajkowski couldn’t look more stunning. The model decided to flaunt her amazing collarbones in a black off the shoulder gown with her hair tied on a low bun. A very defined, but delicate cat eye was mixed with shimmery champagne and a smoked lower lash line making an amazing classy eye look, perfectly complemented by full nude lips and blushed cheekbones.

Paris being Paris, of course, didn’t cease to impress us as Maison Margiela delivered the most fun beauty of this season. In the hands of legendary makeup artist Pat McGrath, shocking bright colors took over the models eyelids, lashes and even brows creating winged, asymmetric exquisiteness. While the rest of the face was bare and glossy, hairstylist Eugene Souleiman took it to the next level with these frizzy vibrant hairdos to finish up the bird-like the look in the best way.

In a Chanel Couture gown, Jessica Chastain attended the Miss Sloane premiere red carpet. Soft curls framed the actresses’s face as she went for a messy-classy hairstyle. As dark red lips and a subtle smoke eye were combined, just a bit of blush was the perfect choice to seal the tender vibe of the look.

Wether it is through dark apocalyptic views or fantasy dreamlands, we can feel these politically heavy times making their impact on fashion, and what better place than London to bring the street into art.

Gareth Pugh’s idea of dystopia was certainly the perfect inspiration to give birth to this beautifully dark vision. The models graced the runway with the blackest plastic looking lids matched crazy long upper and lower eyelashes, resembling a blackhole. Soft coral gloss and blue were the choice for the lips, while the hairstyles were a mix between head pieces, a lot of gel and messy, creating the perfect melodramatic punk aura.

Mary Katrantzou took a completelydifferent influence as she dived into Disney’s Fantasia to puttogether her last collection. Perfectly clean and bare skin was the look, as they didn’t even cover the models’s eye bags and the lips were kept with the lightest touch of pink. Brush stokes of pastels were used randomly enough to give color to the face, making the look a smooth interpretation of gentle fairytales.

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Taking an opposite direction to the previous shows, Preen decided to bet it all on the lips for theirFall Winter 2017 collection. Early eighties romance was taken to the extreme with bright red spreading all over and beyond the lips and voluminous side fringes framing the face. Dead like eyes were the seal for this nostalgically feminine look that without a doubt stood out from the crowd.

As February comes to a close, there’s no better to say goodbye than with a some of the coolest red carpet season looks. Written by Maria Colina Saab.

As the Cesar Awards happened in Paris this past friday, the ever beautiful Lily Rose Depp didn’t miss the chance to stun. The young model opted for a Chanel short dress showing a bit of cleavage and matched it with a simple messy ponytail and a soft makeup. Her amazing cheekbones were highlighted while a dramatic cat eye mixed with bronze shadows brought her eyes out, completing the look perfectly.

The pregnant Amal Clooney also graced the Cesar Awards red carpet, in a breathtaking Atelier Versace gown. The mom to be went for an old Hollywood wavy hair parted to the side, perfect to showcase the amazing jewelry. Dark red lips were matched with soft blush and shimmery brown eyeshadow shades, making her steal the red carpet for the night.

The Film Independent Spirit Awards had this badass attending in a multicolored Chanel mini dress. As if Naomi Harris wasn’t already stunning, her styling brought it to the next level. Sleek straight hair and natural lips were perfect to leave all the attention on her eyes, which were beautifully painted with rose shades and just the right amount of mascara.

“The AW17 TOPSHOP look takes inspiration from nineties grunge and race scenes. Pared back skin is the right side of radiant whilst clumpy lashes and a blurred, stained lip recall party anti-perfection,” says Lynsey Alexander, using TOPSHOP Beauty.

THE LIPS:“Stained terracotta lips are ‘just-bitten’ and worn, painted onto lips with Lip Paint in Crazy Beautiful and topped with Mattifier for a muted, mate finish.Colour is accentuated and solid at the centre whilst edges are blurred with a cotton bud for a feathered, imperfect pout.”

The holiday season has now officially begun and while everyone is going home to their families and loved ones, these badass women are still stunning around the world. Written by Maria Colina Saab.

As the always stylish Emma Stone graced the Critic’s Choice Awards red carpet, she couldn’t help turning heads. The actress rocked a black Ronald Mouret gown with sequins and cutouts, Cartier accessories and kept her red locks in a simple straight bob. Thankfully that red lip and glittery eye gave it the necessary edge to put together a classic but modern look, making her the star of the red carpet.

Earlier in the week, Bella Hadid attended the launch party of her new cover for PAPER magazine, and what a better way to celebrate than with this look. The model kept it comfortable in a crop top and almost bare faced, just a bit of eyeliner and subtle contour, letting her big hoops and her braids for days make the sexy attitude of the look.

As her new movie Passengers is been released around the globe, JLaw has taken it as an opportunity to look stunning in every single one of the premieres. This blonde beauty went for everything this time at the LA red carpet, accentuating her high cheeks with lots of blush, red lips and of course heavy eyeliner. Her hair was kept back in a low bun, keeping it off her shoulders to show off her Dior gown, complemented by Christian Louboutin heels.

Coming to the end of October, these ladies really managed the coolest way to say goodbye to the scariest month of the year. Written by Maria Collina Saab.

Model Adwoa Aboah and her signature bleached brows attended Edward Enninful’s OBE party, looking totally badass in her pink Dilara Findikoglu suit. Naturally, since you don’t need that much makeup when you have that killer face structure, she looked thrilling by just matching it with glossy lips and soft bronze eyes.

Camilla Belle arrived to the CFDA Fashion Fund Show with a Kate Spade New York button up dress. She didn’t take risks going for thick eyebrows and slightly dewy skin. What made the look pop was matte bubblegum pink on her lips; which played it cool with her slightly silvery white eyelids. A true vision of subtle charm.

Gigi Hadid was a breathtaking presence for the launch of her collaboration with Stuart Weitzman. The supermodel took some of the biggest current trends, arriving with a corset over her long shirt and amazing wet hair. Barely highlighting her eyes while keeping the lips natural and the cheekbones warm.

Yellow as a trend color? It continues. Every season we will see more yellow. According to the authoritative trendforecaster Li Edelkoort yellow is the new pink.

Fashion has tackled yellow head on with the most vibrant shades seen in Delpozo’s latest collection by Josep Font. Versace impressed with prints in all shades of yellow while Dior spiced up their winter collection with yellow stilettos and bags.

When it comes to color makeup most of us are still on safe ground. For winter 2017 Fendi and Proenza Schouler convinced us that a yellow lip and eye can indeed be the new pink. Say yes to yellowness!

A hunger for creativity, and longing for perfection, that’s what drives Lloyd Simmonds, YSL’s creative director of makeup.

“Research is very important, in fact it’s all about that, unless you’re a genius and can get directly to the answer. I have to think hard about what is going to make a color really pop. If I have an idea for a certain color, I start by making pigments; I put them in pots and take them to the lab where they try to make my idea work. I never give them paper swatches from Pantone charts. What I want is life, a texture: shine or shimmer. The size of pigments is important, big or extremely fine? I like layers: a color layer, a texture layer. And then there is a shine, and different ways to make it metallic. I’ve been Creative Director at Yves Saint Laurent Beauty since 2010, so the lab sort of knows how I work. Sometimes they give me a new formula and ask me what I can build into in. Then I ask myself: “should it be transparent or something more opaque or matte? It’s important to take all the stuff and digest it, so that it can become something else.”

“I prefer photography to painting. Look, this is fabulous (Simmonds grabs his iPhone). This summer I saw a photo exhibition (Paris Photoquai 2015), with giant pictures shown on the banks of the Seine. It was fabulous, and refreshing. I saw the touching pictures of Mexican photographer Luis Arturo Aguirre. His series of portraits of young transvestites with colorful makeup was impressive. About contemporary art: I never thought I was a fan of Jeff Koons, but when I saw his retrospective in Paris, I connected with the pop elements. Koons is about extremely bright colors, about feeling. This is also why I always loved the French Fauves. What I prefer about this art movement is that the artists used color as emotion. With a group of colors they tried to add story and emotion. That’s why someone like Kees van Dongen is so inspiring.”

“My drive is the eternal search for perfection. The day after, something is not perfect anymore. It has to be done again.” Can perfection also be a problem? “Totally, it can be a trap. If you think you’ve got it right, then it’s usually wrong, because things change. All the time, I am continuously questioning things. What I have always loved about fashion is its imagery. I still haven’t made all the images I want to make. I’ve worked with a lot of great photographers like Richard Avedon, but now I’m ready for a new generation of talent. The reason for a current lack of talent could be that the world is saturated with images. It’s really hard for young people to be original because they have seen so many things already, a billion times. Before, people grew up in a vacuum, and didn’t know what was happening outside of their world, so they had to make it up. Now it’s hard to have a fresh point of view. That said, maybe people have too much information, so they get lazy. What makes this business so interesting is that it’s in a constant state of renewal. There are new people coming, and that’s what I’m waiting for.Furthermore, I’m not done yet. I want to keep on creating, I’m still very hungry, and that’s what drives me.”

Make-up created and styled by Peter Philips for the Dior Cruise Collection 2017 runway show Peter Philips, Creative and Image Director for Dior Make Up, created an ultra-modern make-up look as a counterpoint to a show based on memories and emotions.

Presented at magnificent Blenheim Palace, this Cruise Collection effectively renews links with an exceptional place, in which the House of Dior had previously shown collections in 1954 and 1958.

Sasha Plavsic is the founder of Ilia Beauty, an organic range of cosmetics. All Ilia’s lip and eye products are inspired by song titles, like the bright orange lipstick Voilà from the song by Françoise Hardy.

“Music evokes a lot of emotion and for some reason I always see a color with a song. The music from the past that I grew up with, that my parents listened to, or that old boyfriends obsessed over, has a definite influence on the color stories of Ilia.

To me, David Bowie has been the ultimate color, clothing and makeup icon. He created a pop culture that is unlike any other and crossed so many boundaries in that realm. Rebel Rebel is my rich creamy black eyeliner for the perfect smoky eye. When I was a little girl my other makeup icons were Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and Siouxsie Sioux (Arabian Nights: Tinted Lip Conditioner).”

“Many Ilia multi-sticks reference the jazz era with songs like Polka Dots And Moonbeams, and Cheek To Cheek by Frank Sinatra. Bang Bang by Cher is one of my all time favorite songs. It was also the first song title I chose to inspire a product: the best selling red tinted lip conditioner.

For some of the newer editions I have referenced 90s songs like Strike It Up by Black Box which a blue-toned red lipstick that I wear when I go out and crave more color. I switch it with Pink Moon (Nick Drake) which is a punchy raspberry color I created in collaboration with influencer Grace Bonney from DesignSponge.”

“Is there a song title I like, that doesn’t match the product? I can’t think of one, but I have to feel something from the music because if it doesn’t inspire, I don’t use it. Lately I have been listening to Wes Anderson soundtracks a lot, as they have a wide range of songs and artists. There’s a soundtrack for the HBO series in the US called Ballers, which references a lot of hip hop, old and new. 90s hip hop is a genre I used to listen to back in the day. It’s been fun to go down memory lane with Spotify playlists.”

PS. Ilia isn’t named after a song title, it was the name of Sasha’s great grandfather who owned a designer boutique in Yugoslavia. iliabeauty.com Right: Tinted Lip Conditioner - Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins).

A hunger for creativity, and longing for perfection, that’s what drives Lloyd Simmonds, YSL’s creative director of makeup.

“Research is very important, in fact it’s all about that, unless you’re a genius and can get directly to the answer. I have to think hard about what is going to make a color really pop. If I have an idea for a certain color, I start by making pigments; I put them in pots and take them to the lab where they try to make my idea work. I never give them paper swatches from Pantone charts. What I want is life, a texture: shine or shimmer. The size of pigments is important, big or extremely fine? I like layers: a color layer, a texture layer. And then there is a shine, and different ways to make it metallic.

I’ve been Creative Director at Yves Saint Laurent Beauty since 2010, so the lab sort of knows how I work. Sometimes they give me a new formula and ask me what I can build into in. Then I ask myself: “should it be transparent or something more opaque or matte? It’s important to take all the stuff and digest it, so that it can become something else.”

“I prefer photography to painting. Look, this is fabulous (Simmonds grabs his iPhone). This summer I saw a photo exhibition (Paris Photoquai 2015), with giant pictures shown on the banks of the Seine. It was fabulous, and refreshing. I saw the touching pictures of Mexican photographer Luis Arturo Aguirre. His series of portraits of young transvestites with colorful makeup was impressive.

About contemporary art: I never thought I was a fan of Jeff Koons, but when I saw his retrospective in Paris, I connected with the pop elements. Koons is about extremely bright colors, about feeling. This is also why I always loved the French Fauves. What I prefer about this art movement is that the artists used color as emotion. With a group of colors they tried to add story and emotion. That’s why someone like Kees van Dongen is so inspiring.”

Yves Saint Laurent Boho Stones makeup collection Spring Look 2016.

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“My drive is the eternal search for perfection. The day after, something is not perfect anymore. It has to be done again.” Can perfection also be a problem? “Totally, it can be a trap. If you think you’ve got it right, then it’s usually wrong, because things change. All the time, I am continuously questioning things. What I have always loved about fashion is its imagery. I still haven’t made all the images I want to make. I’ve worked with a lot of great photographers like Richard Avedon, but now I’m ready for a new generation of talent.

The reason for a current lack of talent could be that the world is saturated with images. It’s really hard for young people to be original because they have seen so many things already, a billion times. Before, people grew up in a vacuum, and didn’t know what was happening outside of their world, so they had to make it up. Now it’s hard to have a fresh point of view. That said, maybe people have too much information, so they get lazy. What makes this business so interesting is that it’s in a constant state of renewal. There are new people coming, and that’s what I’m waiting for. Furthermore, I’m not done yet. I want to keep on creating, I’m still very hungry, and that’s what drives me.”

Yes, you can wear contacts to change the color of your eyes, but apart from that the irides escape the whims of fashion. They have their own way of contributing to facial beauty. They can be stunning even on a plain face. And the most beautiful woman that ever lived, known for her captivating eyes, possibly only had one.

The famous sculpture of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti shows a woman with strong black lines around her eyes and prominent black brows. If you stand before her, which you can do in the Berlin Neues Museum, you’d be surprised by the fact that her right eye socket was left hollow by the sculptor. There is only the white of her eye. Her left eye does have an iris, but it is hard to define the color.

Still, Nefertiti is undoubtedly beautiful. Which is strange, because eye color is one of the defining elements of a beautiful face. Or is it? Just like we hardly notice in Nefertiti’s face, that she is lacking an iris, we almost never talk about the color of an iris when we talk about eye makeup.

An iris can be blue, brown, grey, hazel, green or almost black, and of course this affects the perception of a face. But it seems to have no consequence for the colors we apply around the eye. A thick blue eyeliner with a light blue iris, can look just as good with a brown iris. The shade you put on an eyelid can work with every eye. That’s what makes the iris so different to skin color. A light skin works better with some colors, just like a dark skin has its own optimum palettes. You always take your skin color into account when you apply eye makeup. Not so the iris. Named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, the iris has its own unique way of bringing beauty, even when you style it with heavy smoky eyes.

Peter Philips, Creative and Image Director for Dior Make-up, composed a fresh and very natural look.“The make-up is very natural as I wanted to create a contrast with Raf Simons’s collection, which plays with checks, prints and different associations,” explained Peter Philips.He also emphasized that this “luminous, naturally flattering beauty look reflects the relaxed side of the collection, embodying its cool, fluid style.”

Complexion:the complexion was fresh and luminous, as Peter Philips specified, “Diorskin Star Fluid Foundation was blended into the skin to give good coverage that remained luminous and transparent.”He added that for a slight touch of colour he used “the creamy Diorblush Cheekstick in Rosewood (a limited edition for Autumn 2015), blended into the cheekbones as well as the chin to frame the face.” The finishing touch to this diaphanous complexion was a veil of Diorskin Nude Cosmopolite Edition highlighter (a limited edition for Autumn 2015).

Eyes:Peter Philips chose a range of natural shades from the Eye Reviver palette for the eyes: “I used the Primer as a base across the eyelids, then I selected eye shadows depending on skin tone. Next I applied the darkest shade, which is a stronger brown, just along the lash line, but not too heavily.” He added that “lashes were curled, and coated with black Diorshow mascara, while brows were drawn in with Diorshow Brow Styler Gel and tamed with Diorshow Brow Styler.”